The Devil Wears Prada indeed! Rumors are circulating that fashion maven and notorious ice queen Anna Wintour is shopping a memoir to potential publishers. One can only imagine the dishing on celebs she could do. Known for her love of fur and her distaste for fat people, perhaps we will get to hear from the...
Author: samuel.patel
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Shooting The Messenger – How Britain’s Chilling Laws Put Freedom of Speech In The Deep Freeze
These are dangerous days to be a messenger. Hardly a week passes without another story of a journalist or photographer shot, murdered or imprisoned as they attempt to do their job – to give witness to events in a dangerous world. We like to think that Britain, with its raucous tabloid press, lively literary scene...
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Andrew’s ET Clip on Princess Diana’s Jealousy, Will and Kate, Camilla and Royal Scandals
In the above clip Andrew speaks with Entertainment Tonight about how Diana might have felt passing on the torch to Kate Middleton (jealous!), why William and Kate’s choose to honeymoon in Seychelles, how the Middleton family matches up scandal wise to the House of Windsor and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall’s pro-media statements.
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Robots and Autonomy: Separating Science from Sci‑Fi
A factory can run 24/7 with fleets of mobile robots gliding at 1.5 m/s, yet the very same machines can stall at a shiny floor seam or a pallet jutting 4 cm into an aisle. That tension—sleek demos versus messy reality—is where Robots and Autonomy: Between Fantasy and Fact lives, and where smart teams turn...
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Fiction as a Mirror: How Stories Reflect Society, Power, and Tech
A novelist invents a “spice” that enables faster‑than‑light navigation; a TV episode gamifies social reputation with five-star ratings. Both are compact laboratories for testing how scarcity, incentives, and infrastructure shape behavior. Treat Fiction as a Mirror: Society, Power, and Technology—not as prediction, but as a simulator whose dials you can measure, stress, and reuse. You...
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Books as Collectibles: The Art of Design, Format, and Value
Run your fingers over a clothbound spine with foil-stamped type, then compare it to a glue-only paperback: the weight, stiffness, and even the sound when you open it feel different. Those sensory differences—paper at 100 gsm versus 70, Smyth-sewn signatures that lie flat versus perfect-binding that cracks—are not superficial; they shape whether a volume is...
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Measuring AI Performance: My Guide from Testing to Quality Control
When a customer-support assistant I deployed began fielding 18,000 chats per week, two numbers decided whether we kept it online: a 2.4% hallucination rate that generated 160 escalations, and a p95 latency of 1.1 seconds that customers tolerated. Shrinking hallucinations to under 1% and keeping p95 below 1.0 seconds dropped escalations by 28% and saved...
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Urban Health: Shaping the Future of Fitness and Wellbeing
Beneath skyline cranes and cycling lanes, a new rule of thumb is emerging: the average urbanite can cut cardiometabolic risk by 20–30% with 8,000–10,000 steps per day and two brief strength sessions per week, if they also watch air, heat, and noise. That is the pragmatic core of Urban Health: Fitness and Wellbeing of the...
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Sustainable Beauty Meets Everyday Minimalism: A Practical Guide
One 60–80 g shampoo bar can replace two to three 250 ml plastic bottles, and the average adult uses around nine personal-care products daily. Multiply that across a year and a household, and the inputs—money, time, packaging, and water—scale quickly enough to feel inescapable. If you’re curious why people move toward cleaner formulas, minimal aesthetics,...
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Rebuilding Data Infrastructure for AI Success: My Playbook
In the past three years I’ve shipped AI systems that served 40ms fraud scores, refreshed a 2-billion vector index nightly, and survived a compliance audit that asked for column-level lineage across 11,000 tables. The lesson is unglamorous but liberating: AI succeeds or fails on data plumbing, not model theatrics. “Data Infrastructure for AI Success” is...